The University of Delaware is cutting ties with a part-time professor who provoked a controversial firestorm for saying North Korea detainee Otto Warmbier “deserved” to die.

The Newark school said it will not re-hire Katherine Dettwyler, the adjunct faculty member who blasted the 22-year-old student as "young, white, rich, clueless" in a since-deleted Facebook post Tuesday.

Dettwyler last taught at Delaware’s Department of Anthropology during the spring semester, according to a statement Sunday.

The part-time University of Delaware professor said Otto Warmbier "deserved" to die after he was arrested in North Korea.

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“On June 23, the University issued a statement about comments that Dettwyler recently posted online, at a time when she was not employed by the University, concerning student behavior and the Otto Warmbier incident. Those comments in no way reflect the values or position of the University of Delaware,” the statement read.

Former University of Virginia student Warmbier was accused of pilfering a propaganda sign from a Pyongyang hotel and was sentenced to 15-years of hard labor. Seventeen months later, he returned to U.S. soil and died after spending most of his imprisonment in a comatose state.

University of Delaware (pictured) won't bring back an adjunct professor for her controversial comments regarding Otto Warmbier.

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Dettwyler came under fire for ridiculing Warmbier in the wake of his death at a Cincinnati hospital.

“Is it wrong of me to think that Otto Warmbier got exactly what he deserved," read Dettwyler’s deleted post, according to the News Journal.

The 22-year-old student, Otto Warmbier, returned to U.S. soil in a comatose state on June 13 and died days later.

“His parents ultimately are to blame for his growing up thinking he could get away with whatever he wanted,” she added. “Maybe in the US, where young, white, rich, clueless white males routinely get away with raping women. Not so much in North Korea. And of course, it's Ottos' parents who will pay the price for the rest of their lives.”